Nadine Bari was born in 1940 in the Dordogne, France. After her secondary education, she studied Law at the Sorbonne, completed a doctoral thesis and enrolled in l'Ecole Supérieure de Traducteurs. In 1964 she set out for Guinea with her husband, Abdoulaye "Djibril" Bari. From 1964 to 1971 she worked for the United Nations in Conakry. On 27th July 1971 she left Conakry for France with her children. Her husband  a high-ranking Guinean Civil Servant who was supposed to meet up with her  was arrested at the end of August 1972 and "disappeared". It took Nadine Bari 20 years to find out the truth about her husband's fate. Nadine Bari worked as a legal translator for the European Council and retired in 1999. She now lives in Guinea and works with the associations Guinée-Solidarité et Voir la vie. [Sighted 20 December 2012].